viperastro
Member
Hi there everyone
This is a great site, thank you for making me feel welcome.
I have been photographing nature shots and birds on the farm where I live for a while now with my Fuji finepix S602 Pro digi cam and my automatic SLR Pentax MZ-50 (35mm fossil age photography).
Anyway, I feel the need to get some rather nice close up shots without the birds I want to image flying away and the zoom lenses on both cameras aren't up to the job (400 mm zoom on my SLR) ....thats where a spotting scope comes in!
My hubby and I are also interested in astronomy and were wondering whether any of you have used any scopes to image for instance the moon (should any of you have interest in that field) ....do they gather enough light, we can track long exposure with both cameras piggy backed onto telescope.
I am looking for an objective lens of no less than 60mm and my price tag for the scope with zoom eyepiece is around £500
Not sure if my digi cam is up to the job of using as we suffer with vignetting when attaching it to the telescope as the lens extends a long way passed camera body.
My birds await their 15 mins of fame close up!!
Regards
Clare
This is a great site, thank you for making me feel welcome.
I have been photographing nature shots and birds on the farm where I live for a while now with my Fuji finepix S602 Pro digi cam and my automatic SLR Pentax MZ-50 (35mm fossil age photography).
Anyway, I feel the need to get some rather nice close up shots without the birds I want to image flying away and the zoom lenses on both cameras aren't up to the job (400 mm zoom on my SLR) ....thats where a spotting scope comes in!
My hubby and I are also interested in astronomy and were wondering whether any of you have used any scopes to image for instance the moon (should any of you have interest in that field) ....do they gather enough light, we can track long exposure with both cameras piggy backed onto telescope.
I am looking for an objective lens of no less than 60mm and my price tag for the scope with zoom eyepiece is around £500
Not sure if my digi cam is up to the job of using as we suffer with vignetting when attaching it to the telescope as the lens extends a long way passed camera body.
My birds await their 15 mins of fame close up!!
Regards
Clare